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My Favorite Wife (1940) I’ve shown a lot of comedies to my lifetime learners over the years, but I’ve rarely heard an audience laugh as uproariously as they did during a recent screening of My …

Proteins are a distinct state of matter. Globular proteins are tightly packed with a density comparable to a crystal but without the spatial regularity found in crystals. The native state is thermodynamically stable, in contrast …

In which I find myself with a couple of hours to spare in the Herts town of Bishop's Stortford, late on an Autumnal Saturday afternoon.I figured that should be ample time to get around the …

Investment governance refers to the framework and processes which guide investment decision making. For actuaries this is often in respect of pension funds and insurers. However, the structures and policies apply more broadly across institutional …

I write a lot about how I see hope. I have poems about how hope doesn’t feel positive to me – I know its effect is positive, but it’s not a nice feeling. It hurts. …

Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the other is merely making up …

Schlock — sweet and viscous; pungent and indigestible — dominates this cohort of #8s. While Utah Saints continue their high-spirited pilfering through another era’s detritus, a husband-wife act named The Beloved paid for a video …

I’d like to cut a rectangle into a 3×4 grid of squares. To minimise the number of cuts, should I cut three long strips first, or four short strips? Does it matter? Here’s the talk …

[UPDATE: the carved box is SOLD. If anybody else wants one, send an email & I’ll put you on a list…] a follow-up to my previous post here. A friend of Drew’s Langsner’s (& mine) …

These two giant chairs, by Yinka Ilori, are currently on display next to the Royal Victoria Dock. One represents happiness and the other pride, though the fact that I can’t tell which is which is …

My 2024 virtual jack-o-lantern was created in Nomad Sculpt, then rendered and animated in Blender. Seen here with my virtual jack-o-lanterns from 2022 and 2023. The post Jack-O-Lantern 2024 appeared first on Evermore Stud.io.

don’t claim to know what will happen about the “Internet” archive of books. If you have not used them, why? While in general the scanning of old books, magazines, and manuals isn’t perfect and doesn’t …

Exterior -Image © Wellu Hämäläinen It’s often quite hard to make direct comparisons as to the sustainability of different buildings in the industry as costs, supply chains, and methods of construction to name just a …

It's a pedalboard, I think. This might be one of those misguided "if I only had this thing" thoughts, but I think the setup for rain -- and my instrument generally -- would be at …

Two weeks ago, I published my article UV – I am (somewhat) sold. Since then, a lot has changed for me. I switched all my personal projects to uv from poetry. I have set up …